Example sentences of "[vb mod] only [be] achieved by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keeping fit could only be achieved by exercising in the early morning , when the temperature was tolerable , and tempers not too frayed . |
| 2 | In the latter case , only a decade later , the world had changed , inflation was being controlled and growth had slowed , so that recovery from the overexpansion could only be achieved by retrenchment . |
| 3 | Their return to Japan in 1873 saw the implementation of a strategy based on a realization that a repeal of the ‘ unequal ’ treaties could only be achieved by trying to bring Japan up to Western standards in the things Westerners considered important — legal system , political structure , economic legislation and a general level of ‘ culture ’ and ‘ civilization ’ . |
| 4 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 5 | Again this could only be achieved by teamwork , the medical component as important as all the others . |
| 6 | The room was sparse and tidy , as fresh-looking and tasteful as the rest of the apartment , and like the rest of the place it told her nothing about Carson — except , perhaps , that he employed somebody to clean up for him , because it had the impersonal neatness which could only be achieved by an outsider . |
| 7 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C said that this could only be achieved by an oral examination of the witnesses . |
| 8 | Gaining an overview of that risk was very costly and could only be achieved by ordering credit reports , of whatever format , on a case-by-case basis . |
| 9 | The " Coalition for Vehicle Choice " argues that this could only be achieved by the production of smaller and lighter cars , which it claims can be less safe in crashes than bigger ones . |
| 10 | She turns the Government 's self-help approach around by arguing that urban recovery will only be achieved by empowering the people who live in cities . |
| 11 | Therefore , while defensive measures must not be abandoned for the foreseeable future , we firmly believe sustainability will only be achieved by injecting an environmental imperative into the developmental process . |
| 12 | Such a state of tension can only be achieved by implanting a hidden structure which must be integral to the situation — and to what the class can understand of the situation . |
| 13 | In my view many manufactured nets are skimped on width with the result that when they are set the necessary amount of slack within the net can only be achieved by the sacrifice of adequate height . |
| 14 | Often the individual has done such a good job of ‘ forgetting ’ that this recall can only be achieved by means of regression . |
| 15 | Communication , then , can only be achieved by relating language with context : grammar simply makes it easier to establish the relationship by setting , as it were , more exact coordinates . |
| 16 | In our response to the English language , both as readers and writers , we depend on an intimate feeling for words and rhythms and innuendoes and images and ironies which can only be achieved by exposure to great English literature . |
| 17 | This can only be achieved by working prospectively on the child 's future environment and by deciding which new experiences may be introduced to compensate for those which , in the past , have proved to be inadequate for language development . |
| 18 | So the transformation to a new order can only be achieved by shattering their stranglehold on social power , and the rise of a new dominant class which will introduce new property relations allowing productive forces to develop . |
| 19 | Although the present Conservative government would claim to be concerned about unemployment , it has argued that falling unemployment can only be achieved by ( a ) reducing the rate of inflation , since this would raise the real value of a given level of money spending in the economy , and ( b ) stimulating the operation of markets , especially the labour market , so that changes in the relative price of labour can come about more easily and thus ‘ price people into jobs ’ . |
| 20 | Familiarity can only be achieved by simple , direct and unchanging characterisation and this Forester provided . |
| 21 | So , according to Davis and Moore , stratification and inequality are both positively functional and inevitable in human societies , because societies have to fill a number of ‘ key ’ positions with the ‘ right ’ people , and this can only be achieved by allocating unequal rewards to these positions . |
| 22 | Morality is still uppermost , but it is a social morality with which parents and teachers are concerned , not the repression of old Adam , the suppression of evil , or the breaking of the will , and , in consequence , the view that a proper submissiveness in the child can only be achieved by harsh discipline weakens , at least for a time . |
| 23 | This can only be achieved by using higher level information . |
| 24 | It is suggested that enabling educational environments can only be achieved by a re-examination of the way in which special education relates to mainstream education . |
| 25 | Equally , it could be argued that the promotion of a sense of community , of which the primary school is a vital part , can only be achieved by local commitment and action . |
| 26 | It is also agreed that this can only be achieved by changing current patterns of human behaviour ( see for example , the European Commission 's Green Paper on Sustainable Mobility ) . |
| 27 | Maps of the whole Earth show that this can only be achieved by stretching some parts of the surface and shrinking others . |
| 28 | This can only be achieved by examining the literature of the subject area thoroughly for any isolates that might possibly have been overlooked . |
| 29 | A proper understanding of the way the ordinary Scot lived in the past , and of the main forces affecting his standard of living , can only be achieved by careful investigation along these lines . |
| 30 | In all , it 's a price/performance combination that can only be achieved by buying direct — from CompuAdd . |